PIKSEL

Exhibition – “Solar4Rain, an atmospheric PUNK symbiosis”, by the artist collective NSA, Maite Cajaraville and Gisle Frøysland

23MAY – 29 JUNE
Opening hours during the exhibition: Thursday–Sunday, 12–17h
at Studio 207 / Piksel Strandgaten 207, Bergen

For special visits: info@piksel.no

Piksel is excited to welcome you to the opening of Piksel Fest Spill next Friday, May 23, at Studio 207, Bergen, 18h — where Solar4Rain will begin to unfold, evolve, and grow over the coming weeks.

What if sunlight and rain learned to speak to each other? Solar4Rain is an art installation, It’s a living lab. A speculative fiction. A climate ritual in the making.

Created by the Norwegian-based collective NSA, with artists Maite Cajaraville and Gisle Frøysland, this site-specific piece blends data, storytelling, and public imagination into a world where energy flows ethically, and cooperation becomes infrastructure.

Save the date! Join us at Strandgaten 207 / @studio207
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About Solar4Rain, an atmospheric PUNK symbiosis

Solar4Rain is a site-specific art installation in the form of a living lab, hosted at Studio 207, Strandgaten 207, Bergen, as part of Piksel Fest Spill. This atmospheric PUNK symbiosis symbolically connects the solar-rich South with water-rich Norway, visualizing the exchange of resources through dynamic displays of light, sound, and networked technologies.

Combining data visualization, speculative storytelling, and audience participation, Solar4Rain explores a future of ethical cooperation and balanced resource distribution. Through an engaging sci-fi narrative, the project invites us to imagine a world where humanity adopts equitable, sustainable, and symbiotic relationships with nature and technology.

But Solar4Rain is not merely an art project—it’s a call to action. Inspired by Solarpunk aesthetics and permacomputing principles, it challenges audiences to rethink global resource dynamics and embrace sustainability, equity, and innovation.

The installation is an ongoing experiment. From May 23 to June 29, the artists will continuously evolve the space, transforming Piksel Studio into a hybrid zone: a biolab, DIY electronics workshop, IoT experimentation space, and AI prompting unit. These interactive layers encourage visitors to reflect on their personal relationships with energy and resources, while engaging with broader issues of climate change and global inequity.

Solar4Rain uses real elements—water pipes, solar panels, sensor-equipped plants—to take partial control of the environment, triggering lights, sounds, and mechanical systems (including Piksel Studio’s internet-controlled infrastructure).

Drawing from the hopeful, resilient vision of Solarpunk, and the low-energy, culturally mindful ethos of permacomputing, Solar4Rain offers a glimpse into alternative futures where technological innovation and ecological care are not at odds, but deeply intertwined.

Join us for the opening this Friday 23^rd at 18:00h. Opening hours during the exhibition: Thursday–Sunday, 12–17

NSA is a collective art project initiated at 2014 by Maite Cajaraville (Spain) and Gisle Frøysland (Norway). Their first world premiere was held at Digital_IA, Poland. Since then they have exhibit together and individually in many festivals and galleries.

Maite Cajaraville is a multidisciplinary artist, specialized in electronic art, audiovisual performance and installation. She has exhibited her artistic projects at the Centro Pompidou (Málaga), Cáceres Abierto, Matadero Madrid, African Photography Initiatives (Cameroon), Pikslaverk (Iceland), Digital IA (Poland), RIXC (Riga), Centro Centro Centro (Madrid), Arte Alameda (Mexico City), Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía, among others.

For more than two decades, 220hex / Gisle Frøysland (Bergen, Norway) has been one of the key figures of the electronic arts scene in his country. Since the early 1980s, he has worked as a musician, VJ and visual artist. He is a founding member of BEK, the Bergen Electronic Art Centre, and founder and director of the Piksel festival for electronic art and free technologies, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2022.